Hitler's Northern Utopia (eBook)

Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

Despina Stratigakos (Autor)

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2020
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21090-2 (ISBN)

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The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "e;Aryan"e; society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian country into a racial utopia. From ideal new cities to a scenic superhighway stretching from Berlin to northern Norway, plans to remake the country into a model "e;Aryan"e; society fired the imaginations of Hitler, his architect Albert Speer, and other Nazi leaders. In Hitler's Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos provides the first major history of Nazi efforts to build a Nordic empire-one that they believed would improve their genetic stock and confirm their destiny as a new order of Vikings.Drawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, Hitler's Northern Utopia tells the story of a broad range of completed and unrealized architectural and infrastructure projects far beyond the well-known German military defenses built on Norway's Atlantic coast. These ventures included maternity centers, cultural and recreational facilities for German soldiers, and a plan to create quintessential National Socialist communities out of twenty-three towns damaged in the German invasion, an overhaul Norwegian architects were expected to lead. The most ambitious scheme-a German cultural capital and naval base-remained a closely guarded secret for fear of provoking Norwegian resistance.A gripping account of the rise of a Nazi landscape in occupied Norway, Hitler's Northern Utopia reveals a haunting vision of what might have been-a world colonized under the swastika.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 13 color + 90 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • Africa • Aircraft Carrier • Albert Speer • Allies of World War II • Altruism • Andersen • Anomie • artillery battery • Atlantic Wall • Attendance • Autobahn • Availability • Axis • Bakery • Bergen • Berlin Correspondent • Billiard room • Blitzkrieg • british commandos • Building Material • civil engineer • Collaboration • collaborationist • Colonialism • Construction • Cornell University • Curriculum • Degenerate Art • Degenerate Art Exhibition • Deportation • Designer • Deutsche Werke • Deutsche Zeitung in Norwegen • Drammen • East Prussia • economy • Economy of Norway • Eduard Dietl • Eilif Peterssen • einar • E. M. Forster • Emigration • Engineering • Erna Solberg • Eugenics • Europe • Forced Labor • Fortification • Fritz Todt • Gdynia • Generalplan Ost • German Art • german-occupied Europe • Germans • Gestapo • Golden Party Badge • Government in Exile • Greater Germanic Reich • Greater German Reich • Gulbrand Lunde • Headline • Heinrich Ernst Schirmer • Heinrich Himmler • Heinrich Tessenow • Helga Tvinnereim • Hermann Giesler • Hitler Youth • Infrastructure • Interior design • Jews • Josef Terboven • Joseph Goebbels • Judenfrei • Kameradschaft • King Haakon • Kirkenes • Kristiansand • Kristiansund • laborer • Labour service (Hungary) • Larsson • Lebensborn • Literacy • Luftwaffe • machine • Marching • mass grave • meal • Mein Kampf • military occupation • Modernity • Molde • Mural • narvik • Nasjonal Samling • National Reich Church • National Socialism • National Socialist People's Welfare • Naval base • Nazi architecture • Nazi Collaborators • nazification • Nazi Germany • Nazi occupation of Europe • Nazi occupation of Norway • Nazi Party • Nazi party rally grounds • Nazi Propaganda • Nazism • newspaper • new Trondheim • Nidaros Cathedral • Nikolaus von Falkenhorst • nordic race • North America • Northern Europe • Northern Norway • North Side (Pittsburgh) • Norwegian Campaign • Norwegians • Norwegian State Railways • Nuremberg • Nuremberg Rally • Olof (I) of Sweden • Operation Barbarossa • Operation Weserbung • Operation Weserübung • Organisation Todt • Oslo • Pamphlet • PAMPHLETEER • Pastor • Pedersen • polar railway • Political Party • POWs • Princeton University Press • Prisoner of War • Prisoners of war • Project A • Property Law • Quisling • Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes • rear admiral • Recreation room • Reich Chancellery • Reichsarbeitsdienst • Reichskommissariat • residence • Robert Ley • Roofline • Rural Area • Salzgitter • Scorched Earth • Second World War • Shipyard • siegfried line • Skansen • Social Class • Social Exclusion • socialist economics • socialist federal republic of yugoslavia • soldatenheime • Stavanger • Strength Through Joy • Sturmabteilung • Superiority (short story) • Sverre Pedersen • terboven • The American-Scandinavian Foundation • The Wehrmacht (documentary) • Third Reich • Total War • Trondheim • Unemployment • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • urban planning • Urban renewal • Vidkun Quisling • Volksgemeinschaft • Volkswagen • war economy • war effort • washing • Wehrmacht • Wolf's Lair • World War I • World War II • Writing • Yugoslavia
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21090-X / 069121090X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21090-2 / 9780691210902